Show gd Mrs Eldred will willbe willbe willbe be glad to answer n all questions pertaining pertaining per per- 4 to babies I and children A stamped and self self- Y addressed addressed envelope envelope i ope forwarded to T The h e Telegram will bring a per reply By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED SOME UNCOMMON AILMENTS OF CHILDHOOD Ignorant Mother wants to know rily ty ly baby girl weighed six pounds at birth and now at t 2 2 months weighs eleven poun pounds s. s She is breast fed every three hours and gets a afew few ounces of water during the day Would you say she was overfed wm Will you you e gi a me some Information information tion about the th thymus mus gland gland first first symptoms cause and result Also what t is pyloric cause symptoms and result Can they be cured and how long does it take Answer A A. pound five gain aln in two months is certainly in excess of f the he average gain gain- gain and and your baby would probably be just st as well on a four h four ule The thymus gland Kland is In the chest below elow the neck It is at its largest size in infancy and gradually gradual gradual- ly diminishes in size until in adulthood adulthood adulthood adult adult- hood it has practically disappeared If it does does' not begin to atrophy it causes abnormal symptoms These are in some cases quite like symptoms symptoms toms tos caused by any overactive gland Nervousness inability to concentrate for any length of time Or in the baby these may take the form of difficult breathing asthma i fainting getting black in the face when crying or excited or other est symptoms persistent coughIng coughing coughing cough cough- ing etc It Is always a dangerous thing to name symptoms because it itIs itIs itis Is so easy to fit normal symptoms or those caused by natural things to some disease But if the baby shows show for any length of time s any symptoms symptoms symptoms toms like the above it is a wise procedure procedure procedure pro pro- to have tan an ray X-ray taken of or orthe the chest so that the size of the can be noted and if unusually unusually un un- un- un usually lly large X-ray X treatments will hurry its decrease in size How Howlong Howlong Howlong long this will take cannot be anT an Pyloric is caused by bv the size of the being being- too small to allow the cont contents of the stomach to pass into the small intestine The food churns about in the stomach stomach stomach ach unable to to- pass out and finally Is Is is- vomited with explosive force Sometimes this trouble does does' not show up for some weeks after birth though vomiting after eating sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times long after may have been noted before The results of pyloric are starvation caused by so so little food being retained constipation constipation constipation con con- from the same cause Sometimes this can be cured by i feeding thick foods which forcibly I push their way out of the stomach without being vomited so easily orin or orIn orin In aggravated y ted cases J y an operation to enlarge the The cure depends depends de de- de- de pen s entirely on the length of time the baby has been subjected to starvation rations with no knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge on the part of the mother moth moth- er of what tt was causing causing- the trou trou- ble Mothers are inclined to lay it to Indigestion and change foods with no results and the s severity verity of stricture stricture stricture ture and whether it will need opera opera- tion o 0 |